January 2011 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-marketing] Your ideas please - how we can strengthen openSUSE Weekly News team
by Satoru Matsumoto 25 Jan '11

25 Jan '11

Hello mates, as I mentioned in another post, I want to share and discuss yet another problems which we, openSUSE Weekly News (OWN) team have right now - status of translations and how we can attract potential contributors (both editors and translators), how we can involve them and collaboration with News (news.o.o) team. = About translations = Many of you may know, at its peak, we had 13 translations of OWN. But now, we have only 2 translations. So, I want to ask those who once translated OWN but don't now (if they are still reading this list). * Why couldn't you continue translating OWN? (This is not meant to blame on you, but to find out what were the blocks for you.) # I'd like to explain why we Japanese team (and why only Japanese team) could continue translating over 2 years later in another post. ;-) * How should be the translation? Should it be pure translation of original en OWN? Or, can it be independent, so that each local OWN team can modify as needed? - I'd prefer the latter. But in that case: -- It's not easy for each local team to edit original edition from scratch. An essential edition which can be used as the base of each $LANG edition is absolutely needed. -- Why Sascha (German), Gertjan (Dutch), Thomas Hofstätter (Austrian), Thomas Schraitle (German) and me (Japanese) should edit *English* edition? Why won't other native English speakers help much more? = How can we attract potential contributors more? = The questions here are: * What makes the hurdle higher? * How we can make our work much more fun? I'd like to hear your opinions and thoughs, in particular if you have ever interested in being a part of OWN team, but hesitated to do so. = How can Weekly News team and News Team collaborate with each other? = * Should the 2 teams be integrated? * Can we create language specific news.o.o sub domains or directories such as de.news.opensuse.org or news.opensuse.org/ja , where we can publish translated or original news and announcements in our native languages? The latter idea is what I have in my mind recently. If that will be realized, we can translate *important* announcemants and publish them on those $LANG news.o.o much more frequently. Translators who don't have enough time to translate whole OWN *every week* may be able to translate such important announcements as needed. I believe that'll make the hurdle lower, and, "it's better than nothing." ;-) How do you think? Best, -- _/_/ Satoru Matsumoto - openSUSE Member - Japan _/_/ _/_/ Marketing/Weekly News/openFATE Screening Team _/_/ _/_/ mail: helios_reds_at_gmx.net / irc: HeliosReds _/_/ _/_/ http://blog.zaq.ne.jp/opensuse/ _/_/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Greek Customs (New Year's Pie)
by Bratsaki Etern4L 24 Jan '11

24 Jan '11

Here in Greece we celebrate the new year except from gifts but also by cutting a New Year's Pie where inside there is a coin hidden. Whoever finds it wins a special gift and is meant to be lucky the new year. A local Linux User Group located in Volos called Volug and LinuxTeam Teilar a Linux Team in Larisa where i live which both teams consist of colleagues had two small parties for cutting the New Year's Pie. I was there to celebrate with those people and inform them about openSUSE and openSUSE community. They were all interedted about openSUSE distribution. I answered many questions about Tumbleweed and Evergreen and informed them about our new 11.4 and OBS as many of them where interested about the work that is done by openSUSE community and by the Greek Community. I had some cds and posters with me which i gave them. In the future we will make some events together. Unfortunately we did not took any pictures. I would slightly have won the hidden coin at the first party but the next person got it :(. Happy New Year All!!!! p.s. Sorry for my bad English George Bratsos aka Etern4L -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Creating videos
by Rajko M. 23 Jan '11

23 Jan '11

There was discussion in the "common language" threadabout creating videos which would require new thread, so let me put previous discussion in this post: Helen: Video is a lovely idea, but do we have any contributors who are keen and capable with video? As far as I know our video tools on linux, as Rajko mentions, are not mature so we are probably not attracting keen video creators to openSUSE. It takes a lot of time and effort to make a good quality video so people either have to be very keen to do it, or we need to feel that it's the very best way to present that particular information. There is more to creating a good video than just hitting 'record'. And I mean in terms of user experience, not just technical issues. As a user, I hate long, slow videos that take too long. I can scan a page of text very quickly to pull out the information I need. A video I have to watch to the end, and if someone takes too long I get impatient and think about all the download megabytes they are chewing up! Technically, vision quality needs to be great and if it isn't available in a high enough resolution, I can have trouble seeing the screenshots even with my glasses. So not only does a video creator need a good understanding of openSUSE and the feature(s) they are demonstrating, but also a good understanding of how to present that information and explain it well in a straightforward, clear way, as well as having the technical ability to record and publish it correctly. Kim Leyendecker: Q:What want we do on the video? A: To show how you can connect with the internet, browsing with firefox and getting mails with KMail or Thunderbird Q. For which people this video could be interesting? A: For not-technical people I think. Where can we discuss this without boring others? We can create a website. Maybe www.opensusebeginners.org or something like this. Then we make three categories: 1.) Beginner 2.) Advanced 3.) Poweruser And people who thinks they are beginners, can watch this, people who are "advanced" don´t need to watch the podcasts/vids of the beginners. A Poweruser can watch videos about working as root on the shell or compiling the kernel. jdd: we have to write a script. Basically what do we want on the video?what duration? what target user? where can we discuss this without boring others? > Kim: We can create a website. Maybe www.opensusebeginners.org or something > like this. Then we make three categories: no. I do't where we can publish but where we can discuss the content of the video, the script and the making of. I can create a mailing list of my own (I don't think we need yet an openSUSE one)or simply crosspost please, interested people, contact me privately asap Me: @ anyone that looks to create new page that will be used to publish videos: We don't want to publish videos on a new web page. * There are server creation and maintenance issues. * There are issues with site/page ranking of the new page, and also ability of people to guess proper wording that will help them find the page. We don't want to put effort in something that can be found only by few. There is YouTube that almost everyone knows, and that is the place where we must publish videos. For preview purposes we can use some other, not so popular site, but final release must go to the YouTube *and* other places. It is as simple as when you want people to see your ad and you go where people go, not to the deserts or islands lost in the ocean. @jdd: Do I have to contact you privately after this post? :) -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Poll: Which Outputformat of Weekly News you prefer?
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 23 Jan '11

23 Jan '11

Hello Mates, we've placed a new poll in connect about the Outputformats of Weekly News. Please place your vote: http://bit.ly/fjVOZy -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns open-slx GmbH openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com Web: http://www.saschamanns.de Web: http://www.open-slx.de (openSUSE Box Support German) Web: http://www.open-slx.com (openSUSE Box Support English) Open-SLX : Linux convenient, simple, secure and complete

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[opensuse-marketing] Issue #159 is ready for translation
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 22 Jan '11

22 Jan '11

Hi @all! Issue #159 of the openSUSE Weekly News is ready for translation [0]. You can see/update the status of your language at the "whats ready page" [1]. We collected some FAQ here [2]. [0]: http://news.opensuse.org/?p=6337 [1]: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Weekly_news_translations [2]: http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Weekly_news/FAQ Have Phun! -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns open-slx.com openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-marketing] Creating videos
by Will Stephenson 22 Jan '11

22 Jan '11

On Saturday 22 Jan 2011 11:21:08 Jos Poortvliet wrote: > On Thursday 20 January 2011 19:09:40 jdd wrote: > > Le 20/01/2011 17:52, jdd a écrit : > > > Le 20/01/2011 17:39, jdd a écrit : > > >> just to begin with, my work place (sorry, in french) > > > > > > better give a general link to the demo videos (work in progress, do > > > not share without reason) > > > > > > http://dodin.org/wiki/index.php?n=Photo.OpenSUSEVideos > > > > Well... on that page I referenced three kind of videos. > > > > 1) a small shot showing my own desktop with video in run by a small > > compact camera; > > > > 2) the complete shot of the said camera, showing the computer screen > > during openSUSE installation. I can only shot 8 mn at a time with this > > camera (2Gb fat 32 files, HD 720p) > > > > 3) the same shot, from recordMyDesktop. Looks like RMD can neither > > record more than 10 minutes (at least as default from the GUI) > > > > For the final video, we probably have to mix these recording methods, > > not to be too boring. > > Ok, you're way ahead of me, shame on me for reading up on this so late. > Sorry for that! Yes, mixing an external shot & recordmydesktop, brilliant > idea :D > > > The present comment, when there is one, is in french (much easier for > > me to speak french when nothing is prepared :-). I can give > > > > * a basic english text written by hand > > * a basic voice over with the text. > > > > I need an enbglish speaker able to repeat the english text, preferably > > with a good accent (english one or may be NY one? I know the Texas one > > and don't beleive it to be good for us. It's not the sound of the > > accent that is a problem (I like accents :-) but the english have to > > be understood by bad english listeners, and so have to be worded s l o > > w a n d w i t h t h e s l l a b u s d e t a c h e d (not too > > much, of course :-)) > > Imho brittish sounds sexy, we could probably trick Andrew Wafaa or Will > Stephenson or so? I can record something, but be aware that you might need to tweak the video edits if I speak more slowly than you expect. Will your desktop be set to US English for the videos? Will -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Poster for Magazine
by Chuck Payne 22 Jan '11

22 Jan '11

Guys, Jos pinged me a week ago about taking the cube or my cheat sheet and making it into a poster. I am done with the first draft like a little input. I have ask Helen to add a bit of art to it. Let me know what you think Pup -- ----------------------------------------- Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- openSUSE -- en.opensuse.org/User:Terrorpup openSUSE Ambassador/openSUSE Member skype,twiiter,identica,friendfeed -- terrorpup freenode(irc) --terrorpup/lupinstein Register Linux Userid: 155363 Have you tried SUSE Studio? Need to create a Live CD, an app you want to package and distribute , or create your own linux distro. Give SUSE Studio a try. www.susestudio.com.

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[opensuse-marketing] mates strategy: Mandriva
by jdd 22 Jan '11

22 Jan '11

Just for info... I received tonight the announcement of a new Mandriva with some changes in strategy. I beg there is somewhere an english version, but I simply translate the french one (giving the source below) for the part that may be of concern for us. "Mandriva launch officially Mandriva Linux 2010.2 in final version. This vrsion is the first from the new strategy, that is a major version a year, with an update every six month" jdd in french (part) "Mandriva lance officielement Mandriva Linux 2010.2 dans sa version finale, cette version est la première issu de sa nouvelle stratégie produits: une sortie majeure par an. Mandriva sortira également les mises à jour des versions de ses produits tous les 6 mois." -- http://www.dodin.net http://pizzanetti.fr -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] I'm a geeko
by jdd 21 Jan '11

21 Jan '11

Hello, For the clip "I am a geeko", we had a nice opening, closing and music. I have a copy of the mp4 from Youtube, but I would like to have a better copy for use with the marketting video material who can send it to me (or a link) thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://pizzanetti.fr -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Texas Linux Fest
by Jos Poortvliet 19 Jan '11

19 Jan '11

Hi y'all, I was wondering who'd like to go to Texas Linux Fest. If you set up a page on our events page (http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassadors_events#2011) using the template, we can coordinate there. I have received a request from TLF to sponsor. I'd rather use the money to support travel and/or hotel costs for our ambassadors but if you're serious about doing something cool at the event we can always talk about it ;-) Any questions? Let me know! Cheers, Jos

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